vulnerable - Story 166280 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, you're the new guy?" The question, followed by a hearty slap on the back, startled Kevin. He'd just been transferred to the creative team and he felt like he'd been thrown into a pool without knowing how to swim.

His previous role had been in finance, meticulously crunching numbers. Now, he was supposed to contribute ideas, to be… creative?

He stammered a response, his voice barely audible. He looked around the room filled with art, sketches, and people who looked comfortable expressing themselves. The pressure to meet their expectations, to be as creative and talented as they were, felt monumental.

Emotion: vulnerable

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -2.07 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.69

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion vulnerable. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 vulnerable stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the vulnerable emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the vulnerable vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.327
`ness`	0.319
`😞`	0.299
`😔`	0.277
`😣`	0.258

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.567
`la`	-0.488
`l`	-0.271
`(!)`	-0.267
`(!)`	-0.257